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The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
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Bring farmworkers' plight into the sunlight
FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently. One had first entered the country illegally nearly 40 years ago but later became a U.S. citizen at a time when the...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace
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Romney clinches GOP nomination, but faces fallout from the primaries
Mitt Romney’s victory in the Texas primary on Tuesday gives him enough delegates to capture the Republican presidential nomination, but he remains some distance from recovering from the damage caused by months of tussling with rivals in his own...
Tags: Republican Party, Family Planning, Parties and Movements, The Wall Street Journal, Illegal Immigrants
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Mia Love breaks the GOP mold, but can she win?
If Mia Love hadn’t been born 36 years ago to a pair of near-penniless Haitian immigrants, she might have been invented in a laboratory by scheming Republican scientists. A small-town Utah mayor and big-time congressional hopeful, Love is...
Tags: Mormon, Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements, Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut)
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Analysis: Still no good news for Republicans in California
For years, even as despondency deepened in some of its quarters, the Republican Party in California has argued that its message really isn’t the problem. Depending on the year, blame has been laid on the messengers — nominees not telegenically...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Regional Authority, Illegal Immigrants, Dianne Feinstein
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Muslim cleric suspected of terrorism loses bail appeal in London
World NowAbu Qatada, a A Muslim cleric imprisoned on suspicion of terrorism in Britain and convicted in absentia in Jordan on similar charges, will remain in a British jail while awaiting a hearing on his appeal of an extradition order, a judge said.... -
Epithet that divides Mexicans is banned by Oxnard school district
Rolando Zaragoza, 21, was 15 years old when he came to the United States, enrolled in an Oxnard school and first heard the term "Oaxaquita." Little Oaxacan, it means — and it was not used kindly. "Sometimes I didn't want to go to school," he said....
Tags: Politics, Teachers, Bullying, Indigenous People, Health
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Guest worker idea stuck in web of politics
DELANO, Calif. — "You'd think agriculture would have Republican politicians on our side, but on this issue we don't," Kevin Andrew was saying as we toured some grape fields north of Bakersfield, where farmworkers were thinning vines.
Come harvest...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace, Illegal Immigrants
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In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives
Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Prisons, Politics, Chinese Restaurants, Los Angeles Hotels
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BBC America's 'Copper' takes on New York crime in the 1860s
It seemed like a good idea at the time: Convert an area in Lower Manhattan into a comfortable, racially integrated middle-class neighborhood as the city's population swelled, largely through European immigration. Things didn't turn out so well, though:...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Downton Abbey (tv program), Caleb Carr, BBC, West Village
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African refugees in Israel get a cold shoulder and worse
TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood planks atop old TV sets. One man burned his arm trying to extinguish the flames...
Tags: Prisons, Politics, Egypt, International Law, Extradition
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Fake UPS truck used to smuggle illegal immigrants, agents say
L.A. NOWU.S. Border Patrol agents found 13 people hiding inside what appeared to be a UPS truck trying to avoid a checkpoint on Highway 111 in Niland last Friday morning....
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